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Browsing Tag: rain

It all started with a text from my mom. It was this past Thursday evening, and I’d had a quick dinner with David and the girls before he ran out to a scrimmage with his softball team. I was planning to give the girls a nice, long bath, put them to bed, then finish writing a post for this blog that was almost all set to publish. It was one of those moments when I had it all under control. “Man, I hope it doesn’t rain,” David mentioned, checking the sky as he headed out the door. I wiped off the girls’s faces, then let them loose to play on the living room floor while I cleared the table. On my way past the kitchen island, I picked up my phone, and when I saw the text I had to read it twice. It was from my mom, and it said we were under a tornado warning–one was marching its slow, menacing way up the interstate that runs past Mom’s town and, a further on up the road, past ours. Huge thunderstorms were escorting this tornado–and…